Guided Programs for Supported Wellness
We offer small group programs and classes that address key issues many of our patients face. From pain self-management to seated mobility, as well as cancer rehabilitation and veterans’ pain management.
Our programs are designed to empower participants with knowledge, tools, and skills that allow them to manage their condition better at home. Through progressive goal setting, pacing, and a focus on building functional strength and mobility, our practitioners guide participants to build individualized plans.
Browse our available programs below or contact us for more information.
Why Join a Program or Class?
A program or class tailored to your goals and life experience can help increase your ability to self-manage chronic conditions. This helps make caring for yourself manageable rather than overwhelming.
Joining a program can also reduce the isolation you may feel while dealing with a chronic condition. It allows you to receive support for your condition from wellness professionals and peers experiencing similar symptoms.
Pain Self-Management
Our Pain Self-Management Program is a 4-week program led by physiotherapist and clinical specialist, Michael Sangster. It’s designed for small groups of up to 10 patients, costs $60 per session, and may be eligible under your extended health benefits. The program offers quicker access to essential education and effective strategies to help you navigate your chronic pain journey.
Designed to improve your pain management, this program enhances your understanding of chronic pain, helps you develop communication plans for better understanding among your loved ones and healthcare team, and helps you formulate plans for your goals, wellness, and flare-ups.
The program follows this overall structure:
- Week 1: Pain Foundations
The first week focuses on understanding your pain experience and answering your questions. You’ll also reflect on how to develop goals that match your core values and begin planning how to successfully attain them. - Week 2: Empowered Voice
During week 2, you will learn strategies to effectively communicate your experience living with pain and your needs, whether it be with loved ones, an employer, or healthcare providers. - Week 3: Brief Action Planning
The third week focuses on planning goals that align with your core life values. Week 3’s activities intend to help you find the right goal to help establish healthy lifestyle changes that keep you moving and enjoying life without causing a flare-up. - Week 4: Flare-Ups and Finish Lines
When living with pain, flare-ups happen. In the final week of the program, we help you develop an effective individualized flare-up plan to have handy during times of heightened pain. This could include music, gentle movement, deep breathing, meditation, or anything else that helps you navigate these difficult times.
Seated Mobility Classes
Our seated mobility classes are designed for people with mobility challenges who may not have access to adequate exercise programming. Regardless of your health status, maintaining and improving mobility is essential for managing pain, maintaining long-lasting health, and easing daily living. This program is designed to make this movement more accessible.
The program is led by our physiotherapist, Judith Abbott, and is focused on providing individuals with all abilities and pain levels a safe place for guided mobility. The cost of the program is $40 per class, or $280 for our 8-class package. The classes are billed as group physiotherapy, with individual physiotherapy receipts provided after each class, so they can be claimed on your extended health benefits.
Pre-class requirement: Before attending the group class, you must schedule a pre-appointment with Judith Abbot. This allows her time to individually assess your needs, discuss your specific goals, and make sure the program is tailored to your needs.
Cancer Rehabilitation Program
Cancer and its treatments can take a toll on your well-being, mentally, physically, and socially. Our Cancer Rehabilitation Program was designed to empower you through your treatment and recovery journey. We focus on education, exercise, and mobility training to help you regain control over your health and maintain or improve your quality of life.
The program focuses on 4 key areas: Mindset and education, mobility, muscle, and metabolism. The program is designed to continually build mobility, strength, and endurance gradually over time.
Pain is one of the main barriers preventing people from participating in exercise programs. Our physiotherapists have helped thousands of Nova Scotians better understand their pain through pain neuroscience education and can help you better understand the following:
- Active cancer pain vs. pain from active cancer treatments
- Medication and treatment side effects that include
- Numbness/tingling, joint and muscle pain
- Movements to help decrease pain sensitivity
- Long-term and late side effects of treatments
- How to pace your activities to better manage fatigue and pain
- Why your pain may not be going away
Your physiotherapist may ask you to do some exercises at home, in addition to exercises performed in our office, to maintain or continue to improve your mobility throughout the program. These at-home and in-office exercises may include:
- Graded motor imagery
- Active-assisted range of motion
- Neurodynamic mobilizations
- Passive range of motion
- Gentle joint mobilizations
- Somatic and body awareness exercises
- Self neurodynamic mobilizations
- Functional tasks (E.g., sit to stand)
- Walking
After your initial assessment, your physiotherapist will slowly introduce you to our semi-private training room. We use a slow-motion strength training protocol that helps you to strengthen within and move beyond your current limits.
This helps reduce the amount of force on your joints and makes our workouts very efficient. Our equipment is designed to be adjusted for every person’s size and available range of motion.
During and after cancer treatment, you may find that you easily become fatigued, nauseated, weak, and ill, making activities a little more difficult to do. This can happen due to the change in metabolic processes in our body (the process of breaking things down and building things back up).
Our physiotherapists can help you manage your energy and fatigue through pacing and graded exposure techniques. This will help maintain your safety and preserve enough energy to complete your daily tasks.
Our physiotherapists track your progress every session that you attend. The questionnaires you fill out throughout the program help us align the program with your goals and to provide consistent communication with your family physician. Your physiotherapist may ask you to keep track of your activity throughout the day. This is to see where your current activity levels are and to compare them to the end of the program.
Program Structure
The program follows this overall structure, but may be changed based on individual needs and goals:
- Week 1
- A 1-hour initial assessment
- A 30-minute session on goal setting and pain education
- Week 2
- A 30-minute session on the introduction to mobility and pacing
- A 30-minute session reviewing mobility and an introduction to strength
- Week 3
- Two 30-minute sessions on mobility and strength
- Week 4
- A 1-hour reassessment and review of progress
- A 30-minute session on pain education and mobility progressions
- Weeks 5–6
- Two 30-minute sessions on mobility and strength
- Week 7
- A 30-minute session on mobility and strength
- A 30-minute session on mobility progressions and strength
- Week 8
- A 30-minute session on mobility and strength
- A 1-hour reassessment and continuity plan
Find Support and Resilience Through Our Programs
Whether you are managing chronic pain, reduced mobility, or recovering from cancer, our guided programs and classes are designed to meet you where you are and gradually improve your mobility, strength, and endurance, and reduce your pain.
In addition to the programs above, One to One Wellness also offers veterans’ pain management to help those who have served with pain reduction, mental health support, and whole body wellness.
Contact us directly to register for one of our programs or classes.
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We’re located in the Vertu building, located on Dresden Row and Artillery Place in Downtown Halifax. Underground parking is available.
Many of our practitioners also offer virtual appointments. Contact us to learn more about online sessions.
Our Address
- 1535 Dresden Row Suite 210
- Halifax, NS B3J 3T1
Contact Information
- Phone: 902-425-3775
- Fax: 902-425-3774
- Email: admin@121wellness.ca
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One To One Wellness
- 1535 Dresden Row Suite 210
- Halifax, NS B3J 3T1
- 902-425-3775
- 902-425-3774
- admin@121wellness.ca